Chapter 776
New Power
There is a supreme god who monitors the entire world, a consensus that has been circulating among the powerful races.
Xu Chen didn't care about this. What did it matter if they knew? As long as they developed this world well, Xu Chen wouldn't stop them.
“I feel that the supreme god cares about the whole world, not how we fight.”
"Haven't you noticed that whenever those gifted individuals reach a certain level, the supreme god intervenes and brings them back to a normal level?"
"And that time when the various races were isolated, it seems that it was also because the development of the gifted was restricted by the supreme god," the Human Lord said quietly.
"As for the struggle between races, I feel that as long as this world is not shattered, the supreme god will not intervene."
“If things continue to develop this way, the way our three races fight should be changed.” The Human Race Lord looked at the other two races.
"How to transform it?" The other two race leaders became somewhat interested.
"Let's build a virtual world together, and fight in the virtual world when there are disputes."
"Preserve our clan's roots."
The human ruler spoke his mind.
"Fighting in a virtual world is meaningless. We should introduce more combat events or use some kind of game to determine the winner," said the Lord of the Dark Abyss Clan.
“Each race will have several more ways to fight, which will then take place in the virtual world,” added another leader of the Demon Race.
"When competing for general areas, it can be done in the virtual world."
"But when it comes to competing for important areas, I feel we still need to demonstrate real skills in the real world," said the Human Lord.
"Okay~"
After fighting for so many years, the leaders of the three races were also somewhat weary, but even so, they still had to fight when it came to making important decisions.
Not long after, several gifted individuals, reincarnated from the authority of the Dream Dao, constructed a virtual world. This virtual world was about half the size of the Life Zone, and it was divided into game areas of varying sizes.
The moment this dream world appeared, it immediately became a new battlefield for the three races, and in various game areas, the powerhouses of the three races gained the upper hand.
Seeing this scene, Xu Chen found it quite interesting. He thought of the Dream Realm of the human race, where most of the powerful beings who were now asleep had their consciousnesses entered the Dream Realm.
The Dream Realm sustains its basic needs, allowing them to play and have fun within it like ordinary people.
"Let's wait a little longer. When the life zone is larger and generates more primal power, we'll share some with the Dream Realm to help it resume normal operation."
Xu Chen sent a wisp of his consciousness into the Dream World of the Life Zone, randomly entering one of the game instances.
In the game, Xu Chen is transformed into an ordinary person and assigned to a village, where he becomes the village chief.
The gameplay involves assigning each creature a village. The village chief can decide the village's development path, whether it becomes a country, a sect, or some other force, which will then compete with other forces in the game.
Looking at the five villagers assigned to him at the start of the game, Xu Chen suddenly remembered Warcraft III, a game he had played in his previous life.
"Interesting~"
After speaking, Xu Chen took control of the villagers and ordered them to cut down trees to build the main building in the village.
The development of this world is based on real time, and the construction cannot be accelerated at all.
Bored, Xu Chen began to slowly develop his character in the game.
The village he was assigned to was located in a narrow strip of land formed by the sea and mountains.
With mountains to the north and the sea to the south, it was originally an ideal place for development.
Unfortunately, there was a village chief from another tribe on both the east and west sides of the village's location.
After discovering Xu Chen's village, they joined forces and attacked Xu Chen the next day.
In this game, the village chief has no special abilities.
So Xu Chen decided to go all the way and led only five villagers up the mountain.
Xu Chen, who was fleeing, felt no anger at all; instead, he found it somewhat amusing.
After leading the villagers all the way up the mountain, the two foreign village chiefs gave up the pursuit.
"Village chief, what should we do?" A villager who had sprained his ankle while climbing the mountain looked at Xu Chen with a look of despair.
"Let's find a quiet place on the mountain first, and then we'll take it slow!"
Under Xu Chen's command, the four uninjured villagers set up a temporary shelter.
Xu Chen climbed a tall tree and looked down at the two villages below with a leisurely gaze.
"It's been so long since I've played a command-based game like this!"
At three in the morning, Xu Chen woke up the four uninjured villagers and gave each of them a wooden gun he had made on the spot.
"Let's go, let's launch a counterattack!"
Even with only four villagers, Xu Chen commanded with the aura of a thousand troops.
Even with the village chiefs being ordinary people, Xu Chen accurately located the hidden sentries outside that clan's village and eliminated them one by one.
They then entered the village and massacred all of the dozen or so villagers from other ethnic groups.
After doing all this, the will of the game world sent Xu Chen a message saying that he had occupied this alien village and could either occupy it or destroy it and turn it into resources.
"Occupy it, there's no better way to build than to build something ready-made."
After conquering the entire alien village, Xu Chen instantly gained 10 more summoning slots for villagers.
So, with one burst of energy, Xu Chen led 14 villagers to slaughter another village of foreign tribes.
Subsequently, under Xu Chen's superhuman calculations and command, this narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea was occupied by Xu Chen at the fastest speed.
Three hundred years later, Xu Chen looked at the empire he had built and the tens of millions of troops he had built, and instantly lost interest in the game.
"Little Dezi~" Xu Chen, dressed in a dragon robe, looked at the minister to whom he had entrusted the most important task.
"Please speak, my lord!"
"This Star Empire will be yours from now on, it's not very interesting."
As Xu Chen spoke, he tossed out a jade seal with the inscription "By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous."
"Ah, won't you reconsider? We're about to unify this game world, and the reward will be a rare acquired spiritual treasure!" The minister, known as Xiao Dezi, held the imperial seal in his hands, his expression full of confusion.
"You can play with it, I don't care about this thing."
After relinquishing the throne, Xu Chen left the game world.
Then, Xu Chen's perspective returned to the entire life zone.
"Boring and lonely times~"
As Xu Chen spoke, he arrived in the Dream Realm of the Human Race in an instant.
At this moment, all the powerful figures of the human race transformed into mortals, experiencing different lives.
In this vast world, these powerful humans created all sorts of worlds, and you let these powerful beings become mortals to experience them.
In a frozen world, a group of shirtless mortals walk on the ice.
"What are you doing here?" Xu Chen also saw the Third Human Emperor among them.
"We are mortals, who will live the longest?" After a group of people bowed to Xu Chen with trembling hands, the Third Human Emperor said.
"You guys are so boring~"
Xu Chen could understand. Although one could spend a long time in a deep sleep, the endless loneliness that followed was not something everyone could bear.
Therefore, most of the powerful humans sleep for a period of time and live in the dream world for a period of time.
"Lord God, I wonder if the power of the origin is sufficient?" A powerful human suddenly asked in the icy snow.
"What's wrong? What's on your mind?"
Xu Chen looked at the high-ranking human expert who had spoken.
"If there is any surplus of primordial power, it can be distributed to the Dream Realm."
"In the Dream Realm, it is forbidden for any existing Great Dao of the human race to create their own Great Dao based on this abandoned land, and for the Great Dao to be passed down."
"Only in this way can we, the powerful human race who occasionally fall into slumber, play our greatest role."
"But if it consumes too much of our source power, then forget it."
Upon hearing this, Xu Chen felt it was a good suggestion and silently considered it in his mind.
"We can barely afford the costs; your suggestion is quite good."
As Xu Chen spoke, he activated all the sleeping human powerhouses with a thought.
He then merged the entire Dream Realm into a void world, an environment resembling a wasteland, yet still capable of sustaining life.
"In order to be competitive, everyone can create their own power in this vast world."
"Whoever can rule the entire Dream Realm, after the future counterattack against Chaos, I will grant them a territory," Xu Chen promised.
All the powerful beings who had awakened were excited upon hearing this news.
"My Lord, will you participate in this competition?" the First Human Emperor asked.
"You mentioned this? I almost forgot. I can change everyone's aura and appearance. In this world, it is forbidden to reveal one's previous name, identity, or status. Any human powerhouse who reveals their identity will be expelled from this game."
Xu Chen quickly added a patch.
After all the rules were established, all the strongest members of the human race were exiled to various places.
All the powerful human beings were transformed into mortal spirits, and their bloodline aptitude was at the same level.
Xu Chen's surveillance range expanded from one world to two.
Later, Xu Chen realized how wise it was to make the Dream Realm the place of creation.
The Dream World in the Life Zone has entered a normal operating mode, and there's not much left for Xu Chen to find interesting.
However, the Dream Realm of the human race is different. The wisdom accumulated by the human race over the long river of time was used to create this world. When they came to this world, they shone with the most dazzling light.
What was originally a primitive continent evolved into the agricultural era in just 15 days.
After entering the Iron Age, almost all the powerful human race members chose to max out their technology skills first.
The Iron Age evolved directly into the Steam Age, and then, in just three months, radio communication was established in all regions of this world.
Some powerful human beings founded their own factions, while others joined them.
"That's incredibly fast!"
"Everyone focuses on the technology tree, but no one deduces the ultimate path."
As the Dream Realm descended into night, countless stars shone brightly within this darkness.
Every glimmer of light represents a city.
When technology advances to a certain level and enables barrier-free communication, the most intense battles erupt between cities.
Initially, it was a battle of raw physical strength, because the flow of qi and blood was not possible in this world.
For a time, some body cultivators who used to prefer close combat gained an advantage, but not long after, a battle gave rise to a special power. Although this power was very weak in Xu Chen's eyes, and its maximum limit was only the Profound Immortal Realm.
Xu Chen was still quite satisfied that such a strange power, which fit the meaning of abandonment, could be generated in such a short time.
"As expected, battles can so easily give rise to new power."
Looking at the battles taking place everywhere on the ground below, Xu Chen suddenly thought of a novel he had read in his previous life.
In the novel, the human race was treated as prey by the twelve main gods. At that time, the human race fought with all their might, even if it meant certain death, in order to create a main god exclusively for the human race to fight against the twelve main gods.
The scene before them was strikingly similar to that one, except that after dying in this world, they were transported to a higher-dimensional space to watch the battle.
At this moment, in a higher-dimensional space, the first human emperor looked speechlessly at the sixth human emperor.
"You must be the city lord of Tianyuan City, right? Your style has always been so domineering."
"Couldn't you have developed properly in the early stages? I allied with you, and you just killed my envoy."
"Look at what's happened now. It's only the seventh day of the month, and we've already met in this afterlife."
"We don't know how long we'll have to wait for the next cycle."
"Since we're going to fight, we should fight to the bitter end, otherwise how can we create a Great Dao suitable for this wasteland?" the Sixth Human Emperor said with a smile.
At this time, due to the great war, the population decreased sharply, the fighting in major cities slowed down, and the city lords began to desperately expand their territories.
But because of their eagerness to unleash the power they created, they never forgot to fight, even as they developed.
This resulted in only two factions remaining in this world after just 30,000 years, with fewer than a hundred people.
At this moment, these people stood in the center of the Dream World with excited expressions, their bodies exuding a powerful aura of the Mysterious Immortal Realm.
"It seems that the limit of this power is the Profound Immortal Realm. Let's have one last fight and see if we can squeeze out the potential of this power a little more!" said the leader of one of the forces.
"Alright, let's have one last, exhilarating battle. Next match!"
The final battle also caught Xu Chen's attention.
One side's leader was the eighth Human Emperor, while the other side was somewhat unexpected for Xu Chen, as it turned out to be Xu Qinhu.
Both sides fought fiercely, unleashing their final strength!
This battle was extremely tragic, with all the human powerhouses on both sides burning themselves out.
In the end, only the eighth emperor and Xu Qinhu remained.
The two burned their own essence, collided once, and then separated.
"I know who you are now. All I can say is, as expected of you~" Xu Qinhu revealed a sinister smile.
"Who are you? Your path of development is both familiar and unfamiliar. You are definitely not a high-ranking human powerhouse who often appears before me!" The aura of all the human powerhouses he was familiar with echoed in the mind of the Eighth Human Emperor.
"If you can't remember, that's fine. We can always meet again in the next reincarnation."
Xu Qinhu charged towards the Eighth Human Emperor!
At that moment, a trace of immortal power actually emerged. (End of Chapter)